Private Lives, Public Deaths : : Antigone and the Invention of Individuality / / Jonathan Strauss.
In Private Lives, Public Deaths, Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment—fifth century Athens—into one idea: the value of a single living person. That idea existed, however, only as a powerfu...
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Strauss, Jonathan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Private Lives, Public Deaths : Antigone and the Invention of Individuality / Jonathan Strauss. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022] ©2013 1 online resource (232 p.) : 1 Illustration, black and white text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Greek Transliterations -- Introduction: Tragedy, the City, and Its Dead -- 1. Two Orders of Individuality -- 2. The Citizen -- 3. Loss Embodied -- 4. States of Exclusion -- 5. Inventing Life -- 6. Mourning, Longing, Loving -- 7. Exit Tragedy -- Appendix A: Summary of Sophocles’s Labdacid Cycle -- Appendix B: Timeline of Relevant Events in Ancient Greece -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Private Lives, Public Deaths, Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment—fifth century Athens—into one idea: the value of a single living person. That idea existed, however, only as a powerful but unconscious desire. Drawing on classical studies, Hegel, and contemporary philosophical interpretations of this pivotal drama, Strauss argues that Antigone’s tragedy, and perhaps all classical tragedy, represents a failure to satisfy this longing. To the extent that the value of a living individual remains an open question, what Sophocles attempted to imagine still escapes our understanding. Antigone is, in this sense, a text not from the past but from our future. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823251339 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292448 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292448 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823292448/original |
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